<p>I'm currently scoring in the 640-650s in W in the blue book (which is an increase from my 560 on June SAT, learned a lot of grammar rules and boy does it work!) </p>
<p>I hope to consistently score that as well (only done 2 practice tests from BB so far). </p>
<p>The BB gives you a score based on raw score + essay...my essay was an 8 in June, which keeps my writing score from a 680> </p>
<p>If I was to get a 10>, it'd be great! Ty!</p>
<p>Hullo, I get around 700-750 on my writing, and usually get 10 or 11 for my essay score. </p>
<p>The thing that works for me is I read anything related to what I like (for me its psychology) so I read various articles and findings in the field of psychology (like the Milgram Experiment and whatnot). </p>
<p>Since there is a relatively short amount of time until your SAT test, I recommend you spend a few hours on wikipedia or google and find some potential examples that you are interested in. The more you are interested in your example, the wider perspective, resulting in an ability to mold some examples to work with your prompt. </p>
<p>The most important thing is to find the way that works for you
Well this is what I do. Good Luck!</p>
<p>As omgitsthatguy said
just read, read, and READ !</p>
<p>The more you read the more you will write in your essay and btw good luck 
I wanted also to know which source did you use to learn grammar rules and concepts? I got a 580 in writing in May and i wanna really increase that score.</p>
<p>Funny enough, i saw a movie last week based on the milgram experiment, and im a huge history fanatic (watch history channel all day) and then i end up wikipedia-ing the stuff i watch and just read on, but sometimes i feel like i cant come up with an example on the spot for the essay…any tips on that?</p>
<p>Just read about 6-7 characters and try to bend their life experience to fir the essay you’re writing.
For example, I’ll choose Galileo, Hellen Keller, Nelson Mandela and some other 3-4 guys from this list : <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12373482-post421.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12373482-post421.html</a>
and btw, using examples such as Hitler is not preferred, try using examples of less known people.</p>
<p>You might want to try this:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-write-12-essay-just-10-days.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/645763-how-write-12-essay-just-10-days.html</a></p>
<p>^the link from the post above is from this thread.</p>
<p>If you really want a 10> Essay, you can just leave it blank ;)</p>
<p>One trick is fill your opening para with polysyllabic words and a few complex sentences (ie, semi-colons.) And, have three examples. The joke here is Lincoln, MLK, Hitler, Ghandi, etc (well known to all, not esoteric folks fewer are likely to recognize.) A few years ago, the system was testing computer grading for GRE writing- I don’t know how much the SAT writing is now graded by a computer. I don’t even know how relevant this advice is today- mine are both in college. But, this was advice from a test prep co, shared with D2 by friends- and she moved up to an 11 and was not, at that point, a strong writer.</p>
<p>The SAT essay isn’t graded by a computer at all.</p>
<p>If you want to get a 10+ simply use up all the space that is provided. 2 Pages of relevant stuff with a couple SAT words here and there should easily get you a 10. Also for one of the examples, make up an event and say it happened to one of your friends.</p>
<p>all good advice thank you</p>
<p>and to shag and giant, checking the thread now.</p>
<p>and to SAT100, writing all the pages seems very very hard, id need a lot of ideas to cover that much space</p>
<p>You’re right. I can only write 1 and a half to 1 and three quarters pages during the given time. But if you spend the rest of the 10 days writing an essay per day you can easily increase how much you can write in the allotted time. Also remember to write a bit bigger and leave a little more space in between words.</p>
<p>alright thank you all! </p>
<p>One last question:</p>
<p>in the BB (second edition)…</p>
<p>are the first few practice tests easier than the ones towards the end?</p>
<p>I took 2 so far and my scores have gone up</p>
<p>First:</p>
<p>M 580
CR 580
W 610 (if 8 essay), 640 (if 9 essay)</p>
<p>Second.</p>
<p>M 600
CR 600
W 690 (if 8 essay), 710 (if 9 essay)</p>
<p>Thanks if you respond! Appreciate it a lot!!</p>
<p>Well this one is purely opinion, but yes. The first 3 are actual administered tests, the rest of them just seem “different” or harder. I found test number 10 to be the hardest of them all.</p>
<p>hhmm alright thanks, i think ill take the one of the last tests, test, 7 ,8 9, and compare scores just to see…think that a good idea?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take the first three tests until the end because those are QAS.
If you didn’t do the third test yet, save it for last.
Do the others first. I personally found the math section of the first two tests to be slightly harder, but in everything else the other tests seem to be harder.</p>
<p>I have only done the first 2 so far, I think I’ll save the third for last as you said, and do the rest for now…so im guessing ill do 10 now?</p>